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Hetzner has this for quite a while now.

The problem is that the whole Hetzner network is only 1.4tbit/s. Recent attacks were large than that and would've likely saturated their network.

Source? When I search for 'hetzner tbps' I only see one unsubstantiated forum post claiming 1.2 Tbps [1]. There are other reports about new peering arrangements, submarine cables, etc. so I'm curious if you have something more concrete.

Disclosure: I work at Google Cloud (but not in networking / would know the answer)

[1] https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/70274/hetzner-new-ex41...

They state it on their homepage, it's 1.46Tbps [1]. They upgraded a bit recently, still too small to handle attacks that are unfortunately common nowadays. I don't have numbers for OVH, but they should be closer to 5-10Tbps, as they stated that their scrubbing centres will be able to handle 5Tbps in the next months.

[1] https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/unternehmen/rechenzentrum

I am surprised to hear someone saying anything positive about Hetzner. My only experience with them was a nightmare with terrible support and very inconsistent network performance.

I've never heard anything bad about them

Been a Hetzner customer for years now

Most of the histories about Hetzner I've read could be divided to PEBKAC and Service Information is tl;dr problems.

They have incredibly cheap dedicated servers (something like 50 Euros for quad core, 64GB ram, 2TB disk/500gb ssd with traffic included!).

I had several servers from them over the years without issues and great performance.

Never been DDOSed though...

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